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Durus Brings Human-Like Gait (and Fancy Shoes) to Hyper-Efficient Robots
SRI International's DURUS robot can now walk like a human while wearing normal shoes.
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How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl.
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Air Force Seeks Ideas For How Quantum Computing Can Help Warfighters
The U.S. Air Force has requested white papers that describe new ways quantum computing could help achieve its mission.
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How to Keep More Girls in It at Schools If We're to Close the Gender Gap
The gender gap in the information technology industry is underscored by a lack of engagement of girls in computing and IT education.
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Brain-Data Gold Mine Could Reveal How Neurons Compute
Inspired by the large-scale sky surveys with which astronomers explore the cosmos, neuroscientists in Seattle, Washington, have spent four years systematically...
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.
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A Computer Binge-Watched Tv and Learned to Predict What Happens Next
You watch hundreds of hours of television, they call you a lazy slob. A computer does it, and it's a technological success story.
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Science on the Verge of Creating 'emotional' Computer
Researchers are developing an emotion-based artificial intelligence that will be able to understand the context of what is going on, as well as unfolding scenarios...
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Researchers Want to Achieve Machine Translation of the 24 Languages of the Eu
Saarland University researchers are developing an automated system for translating between the languages of the European Union.
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Computer Hackers Don't Stand a Chance Against These Girls
The GenCyber program consists of 119 summer camps for girls sponsored by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Europe Approves New Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal
European officials approved a new agreement on Tuesday that will allow some of the world’s largest companies, including Google and General Electric, to move digital...
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Clouds Get High on Climate Change
Clouds are moving up, up and away. An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s, clouds have shifted towards Earth's poles and cloud tops...
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The Code That Took America to the Moon Was Just Published to Github
The flight software for the Apollo 11 space program last week was uploaded to the GitHub code-sharing website.
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...
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In Memoriam: Rudolf Kalman 1930–2016
The engineer and mathematician was best known for the eponymous Kalman filter.
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
Neural networks are changing the Internet.
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Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft
Microsoft announced the open source code underlying its Project Malmo is now publicly available, enabling artificial intelligence experimentation by Minecraft users...
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Boston Is Nation's Top Tech-Talent Exporter
The U.S. technology worker population currently totals 4.8 million, according to CBRE's 2016 Scoring Tech Talent report.
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